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3 to 6 lines long; involucre of several bracts or none; involucels of linear 

 acuminate bractlets; stylopodium low, with long slender styles. 



Napa Range, Ukiah and northward to British Columbia. The tubers and 

 the young shoots were used as food by the Pomos, in both cases being eaten 

 raw. 



16. EULOPHUS Nutt. 



Glabrous perennials with deep-seated fascicled tubers and radical leaves or 

 the cauline few and small. Leaves compound with the leaflets or ultimate 

 segments linear or elongated and entire, rarely ovate or oblong and incised; 

 terminal leaflet elongated, always entire and often caudate. Flowers white or 

 pinkish. Umbels long-peduncled. Bracts of involucre and bractlets of involucel 

 similar, several, lanceolate, acuminate. Calyx-teeth prominent. Fruit ovate to 

 linear-oblong, glabrous, flattened laterally. Ribs filiform, equal. Stylopodium 

 conical, with long strongly recurved or deflexed styles. Oil-tubes 1 to 5 in the 

 intervals, 4 to 8 on the face. Seed-face broadly concave, with a central 

 longitudinal ridge. (Greek eu, true, and lophus, crest, in reference to the 

 salient terminal leaflet.) 



1. E. calif ornicus (Torr.) C. & R. Stems generally 3, erect, 3 to 5 ft. 

 high; leaves radical, pinnately twice compound; leaflets ovate, pinnately in- 

 cised, 5 to 7 lines long, or the leaflets of the earliest leaves linear, 3 to 5 or 

 more lines long; terminal leaflet % to 1% in. long, iy 2 lines wide, entire; 

 rays 1 to 1% in. long; flowers white; fruit linear-oblong, 3 l ; nes long; oil- 

 tubes large and solitary in the intervals, 4 on the face. — (Podosciadium cal- 

 if ornicum Gray.) 



Along stream, Aurora Honda, at foot of Mt. Day (Mt. Hamilton Range), 

 Dr. B. J. Smith; Sierra Nevada foothills from Knights Ferry to Mariposa Co. 



17. PIMPINELLA L. 



Glabrous perennials with decompound leaves. Flowers white or pinkish in 

 ours, in compound umbels. Involucre and involucels none. Calyx-teeth obsolete. 

 Fruit ovate, with a broad commissure. Ribs slender, equal, distant. Oil-tubes 

 numerous, 2 to 6 in the intervals, several on the face. (Connected with Latin 

 pampinus, a tendril, the application not obvious.) 



1. P. apiodora Gray. Pimpinel. Erect, 2 or 3 ft. high; leaves mostly 

 radical, 2 or 3 times ternate; leaflets ovate in outline, laciniately pinnatifid and 

 serrate, 1 to 1% in. long; umbels long-peduncled; rays 14 to 20, 1 to 2 in. 

 long; fruit broadly ovate, 1% lines long; oil-tubes 4 or 5 in the dorsal inter- 

 vals, about 6 in each lateral, 8 or more on the face. — (Ligusticum apiodorum 

 C. & R.) 



Rocky or bushy hills, San Francisco, Pt. Reyes and northward to Mendocino 

 ( lo. June. 



18. SIUM L. Water Parsnip. 



Glabrous perennial marsh or aquatic herbs. Cauline leaves simply pinnate. 

 Flowers white, in compound umbels. Bracts and bractlets several to many. 

 Calyx-teeth minute. Styles short. Stylopodium depressed. Fruit ovate or 

 oblong, somewhat laterally compressed, with narrow commissure. Ribs prom- 

 inent, corky. Oil-tubes 2 or 3 in the intervals, at least in some of the inter- 

 vals. (Sion, Greek name of some water plant.) 



1. S. cicutaefolium Gmel. var. heterophyllum Jepson. Stem stout, 2y 2 

 to 314 ft. high, from a cluster of fleshy fibrous roots, angular and more or less 

 flexuous; lowest leaves sometimes simple, on long fistulous petioles, serrate 



